Berkman B, Walker S, Bonander E, Holmes W
Soc Work Health Care. 1992;17(4):103-19. doi: 10.1300/J010v17n04_06.
There are some elderly patients who receive social work services during an initial hospitalization and experience an early unplanned readmission, when they again are in need of social work assistance. This research identified factors which differentiated social work patients who were readmitted to the hospital within one month and were again referred to social work services from those who were not readmitted. Three factors were found to be predictive of readmission to social work: longer length of stay in the initial hospitalization; presence of barriers which complicated the social work service plan undertaken in the first admission; and provision of social work services in the initial admission which were limited to information and referral only.
有一些老年患者在初次住院期间接受社会工作服务，随后经历了早期非计划再次入院，此时他们再次需要社会工作援助。本研究确定了一些因素，这些因素区分了在一个月内再次入院并再次被转介接受社会工作服务的患者与未再次入院的患者。研究发现有三个因素可预测再次接受社会工作服务：初次住院时间较长；存在阻碍因素，使首次入院时开展的社会工作服务计划变得复杂；初次入院时提供的社会工作服务仅限于信息和转介。
